Shifting the Dials: A New Approach for Success in Work and Life

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It's been a slow and at times tough journey, but now I have a consistent and meaningful yoga practice. My asana practice mostly now consisting of self-practice, at home with my cats, in the snippets of time I can carve out in between work and family life, especially since becoming a mother. I get that question frequently. Sometimes it comes with a bit of attitude, followed by the assertion that “I don’t want to be a CEO.” But in 2014, Anderton-Davies’s high-speed life was derailed. She was hit by a white van while cycling to work and broke her collarbone. As she recovered, she found herself reassessing her hectic life. This is a shift that starts now, particularly given that 2018 is a critical juncture for the Pacific region. During this year the Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Fiji and the Solomon Islands will all hold elections. Papua New Guinea will host APEC, Nauru will host the Pacific Islands Forum, and Fiji, as current President of the Conference of the Parties on Climate Change, will lead the international community in the important ‘Talanoa Dialogue’. A process designed to increase climate attention in the fight against climate change. The world’s focus is therefore on the Pacific like never before.

members of the child health workforce in Scotland signed an open letter to First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon. This letter was closed on 11 October following an announcement from the Scottish First Minster. Read our response to the announcement. The only way to do it, she says, is by “shifting the dials”. The Dials philosophy is one she lives by, and has decided to share. Her book outlines a different way of looking at the issue – the shifting dials – which she argues is a much more realistic way of knitting together all the pieces of our lives in the present while allowing us to plan for the future. From dashboard to resilienceIn 2015, Melbourne grew by more people every five days than Hobart added in the entire year (p. 124) This was said before in this speech but it needs to be emphasised tonight again. There has never been a time before since 1945 when Australia and New Zealand need to work together in the Pacific. How can you have a career and a life you love, in a world which still isn't set up for you to do either of those things with ease? There’s no easy version of what we’re all trying to do, which is be happy and be more fulfilled,” she says. “The world is hectic and when you add parenting, multiple jobs, cost of living crisis and all of that stuff, it’s hard. I don’t think there are enough hours in the day for anyone.”

To demonstrate a depth of understanding of the Pacific shaped by academic, community, civil society and private sector expertise that exists in NZ. Shifting the dial’ outlines an ambitious strategy that will use the Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation's (CIHT) position as a strategic influencer and leader in the transport sector to effect change. And as we move from the emergency response phase to long term recovery, both countries are dedicating expertise and resource to helping our Pacific neighbours in their time of need. Both numbers were deleted in the corrected report. Instead, the commission said the effect of changing car import rules was “hard to estimate given unreliable data on used car sales and the prospective impact on car prices”, and did not quantify the effect of the grab-bag of proposed policy changes.This emphasis on leadership diplomacy with the Pacific will manifest itself by undertaking frequent Ministerial travel into the region and providing a high degree of political access to Pacific Leaders who visit New Zealand; Australia is beset by a rising wave of complex chronic health conditions that will lead to many years of life spent in ill health, lower involvement in work and rising costs for the health care system. Suppliers rather than patients are the centre of the current system — an anachronism built on paternalism. The Shifting the Dial partnership consists of Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Centre for Mental Health, First Class Foundation and Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.

A financial industry executive used our Leadership Power Tools to make a one-year plan to become vice president of her firm—and succeeded. I am very grateful to members of the Diversity and Inclusion Panel for the time and commitment they have put into the development of CIHT’s EDI strategy and 5-year action plan and to the Clear Company who conducted the research on which the strategy is based. We believe that, with this renewed EDI focus and direction, CIHT and its partners can make a real difference to the way the sector is perceived, significantly improve the diversity of the workforce and benefit from the different perspectives that more diversity and inclusivity bring.” The dial is an elevated goal, one that gets given many names; vision, purpose, mission, objective etc. the difference here is that ultimately whatever we do, it should make the human condition or expereince truly better. How can we make somthing that really matters? And defining something in human terms also has the benefit of demystifying it, and as the understanding is cultivated to democratise what this really means for the organisation and each individual, everyone can get on with the process of delivering.

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That’s one woman moving the dial for herself. She is the CEO of her own life—aren’t we all?—and her small business. But most important, she’s moving the dial toward her passion and personal goal. And in doing so, she’s setting an example for other women. Next come the dials on your dashboard – there should be many for different aspects of your life, for instance, several for work – not just what you are doing now, but promotions you are seeking, jobs you are applying for and so forth. There will be dials for family, for leisure pursuits, voluntary work and so forth so that the dials reflect your life as a whole. You may need to remove a dial at any given stage to make way for other dials. Honesty is vital. Anderton-Davies writes: “Your dials are about expressing your life as an expansive list of its component parts: how you are spending your time now and how you want to be – each as its own dial. Together, these handful or two of dials represent both what is important to you and what you are doing about it, day-to-day, week-to-week, month-to-month and year-to-year.” Our collective response for example to Tropical Cyclone Gita was a visible demonstration of how Australia and New Zealand work seriously well together.

Right now, for example, she says her children are never dialled down too low – she spends 1 hour and 45 minutes a day with them, which includes meal times. Their books and games are spread out in the family living room. And with more regional instability and global uncertainty than at any time in living memory, Australia and New Zealand need to be very clear sighted about facing these challenges together because we have never since 1945 never needed each other more. This is the question investment banker, mother and prolific side-hustler, Rebecca Anderton-Davies sets out to answer in this paradigm-shifting book. Turning the outdated concept of work-life balance on its head, she has created a framework comprising a series of 'dials', which sees work and life as an ever-shifting series of components. These dials reflect where you are now, and what you need to prioritise, in alignment with your ambitions, values and goals. Whelan said: “There are more conversations than ever before happening about the modern-day reality of having it all and achieving work-life balance—and what truly unattainable and outdated taglines they are, setting up so many people to feel like failures who are not so much juggling but constantly dropping the ball in at least one area of their everyday lives. Fortunately, new tools and processes are emerging to help accelerate change from the top down so women don’t have to do it all from the bottom up.

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members of the child health workforce in England signed an open letter to the new UK Prime Minister, Liz Truss. (Following Liz Truss's resignation as PM, this letter was re-sent to newly appointed PM Rishi Sunak on 25 October.) This was the era of Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In and it seemed to confirm that the only way to get ahead as a woman was to try harder, assert better and demand more. “I loved that book. It absolutely influenced me,” she recalls. New Zealand – which is the Pacific’s second-largest donor, accounting for around a tenth of total development spending in the region – is not alone in grappling with the new realities. It is the same question Australia, the European Union and the United States all pose to themselves. We need to better pool our energies and resources to maintain our relative influence. We see in 2018 a region challenged by a dizzying array of social and environmental problems and one attracting an increasing number of external actors and interests. So much is changing in the Pacific and sometimes it is not for the best. Need and temptation often leads to greater risk than prudence would suggest.